English writer Paul D Brazill's 13 Shots Of Noir is a collection of short stories in the vein of Roald Dahl, The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.The first story, "The Tut", was nominated for a 2010 Spinetingler Award, while the story "Anger Management" was chosen as one of the Predators and Editors top twenty crime stories.
Crime, horror and dark fiction are contained... [click here for more]

Driving home for Christmas, the last thing Robert Tremaine, Duke of Whitney expects to find is an unconscious woman in the snow. The mystery deepens when she wakes up and cannot remember who she is. Robert becomes enchanted by the mysterious stranger who refuses to let the fear of her memory loss overwhelm her. It is only at the Solstice Ball, when her uncle appears and demands that Emily Conrad return... [click here for more]

Grim and isolated, The Fortress sits upon its island. It is not nearly as impenetrable as the Ruling Council would like. With its walls of wood and stone, and its high watchtowers scanning the dismal swamp, it is the last line of defense for the humans against a dark and dangerous world. The only other protection for mankind are the Slayers, a magic-infused fighting force sent into the murky waters... [click here for more]

Against his better judgment, Police Chief Sam Jenkins hires Dallas Finchum, nephew of local corrupt politicians.
Now, Finchum is accused of a rape that occurred when he attended college three years earlier.
The young man claims his innocence, but while investigating, Jenkins uncovers corruption in the local sheriff’s department, evidence that detectives mishandled the investigation and the... [click here for more]

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Traveling across the Martian polar cap, the second TransPolar Expedition is tracing the shape of the hidden lands beneath the ice and snow. Sita, the expedition’s cartographer, has a talent for interpreting the shades and squiggles that the computer produces from satellite photos and sonic recordings. She takes ambiguous data and makes a clear... [click here for more]

In one moment a global blackout occurs, and six billion humans become unconscious. During this brief yet seemingly eternal three-minutes, a series of catastrophic events occurs, and minds collide with truths hidden beyond the physical realm. With the reawakening comes a drastically and horrifically altered world; populations decimated and social order gutted. No one seems to remember the truth that... [click here for more]

A Prophecy Is WrittenOn a day as dark as night three will be born with powers that will surpass all others, with unique names to remind them of their passage. These three will be born of Dracula with traits as black as night, identical in face, but individual in appearance.The firstborn will be able to travel undetected; the second-born will be able to hear all but... [click here for more]

Susan Whitcomb, a brilliant New York trial lawyer, has learned her craft from the best in the field—Professor Farlan Amory Adams, her Columbia law teacher, millionaire mentor, and eloquent would-be lover. She needs every shred of the rigorous mental training he has given her when, without warning, she is catapulted into the vicious world of international terrorism. Susan’s well-ordered... [click here for more]

When Jenny found herself pregnant at the age of fifteen she thought her life was over, but with supportive parents, she was able to get her education. With her future secure at the hospital on the reservation where she grew up, love was the last thing she wanted in her life.
Brand knew he was going to be practicing in a rural hospital. What he didn't realize that Jenny, the beautiful Native American... [click here for more]

First three titles in the Kate Lawrence Mysteries: Waiting for Armando, Murder on Old Main Street, and A Skeleton in the Closet. Get to know Kate and her smart, sassy colleagues during the early days of their friendship and working relationship in Hartford and Old Wethersfield, Connecticut. Enjoy three cozy mysteries that are funny, heartwarming and real at a very affordable... [click here for more]

"I'LL BE ON YOUR PATIO AT FOUR O'CLOCK. IF YOU AREN'T THERE, I'LL UNDERSTAND...."
This is the gist of the mysterious plea for help that Conan Flagg finds lying on the counter of his Holliday Beach Book Shop. The writer is beautiful Isadora Canfield, a concert pianist and daughter of the late Oregon Senator John Canfield, in whose will she would become a millionairess.
Isadora wants Conan... [click here for more]

It's 1985. Threatened by the spectre of mortal illness, beautiful Abigail Winslow suddenly forsakes her glittering world of high-priced antiques and New York, solely for a daring struggle with her past. Desperate, she plunges into a brief but passionate affair with a strikingly handsome young doctor, retraces the course of her troubled childhood, and searches for the one man she has never stopped loving.... [click here for more]

Viscount Aubrey "Stony" Wellstone is at the end of his rope—and the end of his family's once-great fortune. Desperate, he tries his luck at the gaming tables, where an offer to exchange his debts for a gentlemanly favor leads to a profitable new profession...as an "honorable escort" accompanying the cream of the ton. The fiercely independent, flame-tressed Miss Ellianne Kane... [click here for more]

A marriage of convenience. How dreadfully inconvenient...
Lisanor needs a husband willing to marry her immediately, but he must agree to an outrageous condition. Guillemot is all but bankrupt and Clarence, the new marquess, has no choice but to marry for money. She is trained to manage a great estate, he to command a regiment, and neither is willing to give an inch. One of them must yield... [click here for more]

When the mutilated body of a young man is found in an alley in the early hours of a winter's day, events would be set in motion that would lead Matt Murphy into the world of a young woman's twisted desire to find a love that could never be had and the betrayal of a father.
As the bodies pile up, he is drawn into the delusional mind of a serial killer who is obsessed with young, handsome actors working... [click here for more]

Harry looks a lot like his ancestor whose portrait hangs in the seat of the Earls of Cragmoor. Something about him speaks to Maggie, who happily agrees to write to him as she continues on her tour of old English castles. Before long Harry invites her and her traveling companion to spend Easter weekend at his home. While there Maggie experiences haunting dreams of an ancient love affair and its tragic... [click here for more]

Ghosts exist. Quinn Roberts knows this because she is one - kind of. The spirit of a dysfunctional ancestor, Catherine, has evicted Quinn from her own body, forcing her to live in a world with the paranormal. No one can see, touch or hear her, except the ghosts she grew up with and the bane of her existence, a self-centered paranormal investigator named Boone.
Forced to watch the growing bond between... [click here for more]

Matthew McCullough is in denial. He claims he wants nothing to do with Arielle Bradford. He tries to convince his overgrown family of cousins to lay off and let him be the bachelor he’s determined to be. The problem is convincing himself.
When Matt’s wife left him and their children eight years ago, he swore he would never fall in love again. But when the beautiful and wise psychologist... [click here for more]

"Sweet Tooth"
Sometimes a girl is a slave to her addictions. Anna is your average vampire, convinced by someone she loved to give up her mortality, but some cravings don’t die with her. Strolling through the myriad of sweet scents wafting from Sweet Tooth, she pauses to catch a glimpse of the man who creates such mouth watering desires.
"Predator"
Late one night Jonathan... [click here for more]

Wine is poetry in a bottle. Oscar Detrick, a well-known sommelier and part owner of a wine agency, was not known for being a gentleman. Instead his attributes would include arrogant, lack of morals and using his oversized figure to intimidate others. Detrick also wrote a wine column in the local paper and was not above using the articles to enhance the sale of his wines and to torpedo the competition.... [click here for more]

Elle.com described this debut novel as “an alternately hilarious and poignant look at the unsettled state of one woman trying to make it outside the socially sanctioned college-office-marriage trajectory.”
Karla, 22, is thrilled to be hired as an entertainer on the Sound of Music cruise ship—where the rum punch is 80 percent Kool-Aid, the ice sculptures are plastic, and her "fake... [click here for more]

Struggling to be a dad and a son, Alexander didn’t know he was lost. Living her dream, Sarah didn’t know she needed to be found. Enter cupid in the form of a dying man, who hasn’t had much contact with his children and grandchildren in the years after his wife’s death. In the meantime, however, a new family has formed around him. Patrick McCullough’s staring contest with... [click here for more]

With her sunset hair and flashing mocha eyes, Cristabel Stew is a rare jewel for any man. But for Old Captain Whiskey, the most notorious pirate sea dog of the Caribbean, his daughter is more precious than the richest swag of gold and silk. When he brings back a proper English gent from his latest plunder, his plan for her future seems secure. The prized captive is none other than Magnus Titus Snow,... [click here for more]

A bloodsucker discovers he's not the only monster stalking the streets of Victorian London, when his nightly search for sustenance brings him face-to-face with the city's most notorious butcher - Jack the Ripper. A short story from our Spectres horror line. ... [click here for more]

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Master thief Christmas "Crazy-Eyes" Parker has murdered a path from one end of the galaxy to the other, earning a living as a hired gun for the Galactic Coalition, the singular government controlling all planets inhabited by mankind. When an armored truck job goes sideways on the planet Eridan, Parker puts herself at odds with her government liaison, Horace Murchison... [click here for more]

Aaron Stiles is dead. He’s been dead for four years but doesn’t seem to know it. He’s waiting for his partner Bill to come home, and until that happens, he’s not going anywhere. The trouble is, Bill Somers won’t be coming home—ever—because he’s dead, too. The official verdict was suicide, but…
The last thing Elliott Smith needs in his latest... [click here for more]

Chicago social worker, Maggie O’Hara, arrives at the Minneapolis airport where she awaits the arrival of her family to pick her up and take her home with them for Thanksgiving. She’s nervous, due to the surprise she has for them in her arms—her newly adopted baby girl from Korea. With little thought, Maggie grabs a stranger getting off the same airplane, and asks him to portray himself,... [click here for more]

Abby Manners wants the traditional Christmas she’s never had. Nick Claussen wants Christmas without all the trimmings.
Despite their differences their wildfire attraction threatens to burn out of control when Nick arrives to play Santa to Abby's Elf.
This title is available in EPUB and Kindle formats.This title is published by Denise A. Agnew and distributed by... [click here for more]

A compilation of horror, mystery, and urban fantasy short stories by Austin authors with a distinctly dark side...
Featuring stories by Kaye George, Mary Anne Loesche and Steven Metze.
This title is published by Dragonfire Press and distributed by Untreed Reads. ... [click here for more]

Amanda's friend Sasha's stepmother has just committed suicide—although, according to Sasha, Phoebe Ennis would never have killed herself, especially not while having a drink and wearing a red silk blouse and red sandals with four-inch heels. Amanda isn't persuaded, but reluctantly agrees to help investigate the woman's demise, though the evidence for foul play is slim. True, the middle-aged compulsive... [click here for more]

Clare Darby is feeling restless, but can’t quite put her finger on why. Her life is in order, so what is the problem? When her daughter asks what she really wants for Christmas how can Clare tell her all she wants is to get laid. All her life she has fallen for Mr. Wrong. Will she ever find Mr. Right?
This title is published by Melange Books and distributed by Untreed Reads. ... [click here for more]

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An Age of Mist is set in an alternate world where the sun never shines and the land is covered in mist and fog nearly all of the time. What begins as a classic tale of another world develops into something much deeper. As we follow the protagonist, the young Santori, it becomes apparent that he faces a far more menacing element to this world than simply the... [click here for more]

Give the gift of love this holiday season with five romantic, magical Christmas stories—and feel as if you've just been kissed beneath the mistletoe.
Originally published in separate anthologies, and out of print for many years, these Christmas-themed novellas by legendary Regency romance author Barbara Metzger are in one volume for the first time ever!
The spirits of a knight and his lady... [click here for more]

When Olympia Brown is invited to attend a religious conference in England, she soon discovers there is more than faith on the agenda. Someone on staff has a well-calculated plan to destroy The Moorlands, including the great stone house itself. Olympia discovers embezzlement, tainted food and a prescient housecat named Thomas, all of which eventually fit into a pattern—but not before she falls... [click here for more]

When the decapitated body of a young computer engineer is found on the train tracks in Monterrey, Mexico, Captain Guillermo Lombardo finds his investigation taking him into the world of the Mexican drug cartels. As everyone from the university Dean to the Governor himself fails to cooperate with the investigation, Lombardo soon discovers that the body is just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger... [click here for more]

Spurned by a world oblivious to the the mythical creatures inhabiting it, a gargoyle hunter stalks a manic pyromancer through the streets of London. But a question continues to surface as the hunt goes on: is the Earth worth saving?
James McCrary is not a bad man, just a better animal. It’s the reason Uwe Löwe sprang him from juvenile detention and groomed him as his hunter protege. The... [click here for more]

Phoenix, Elora Gannon is on the brink of her seventeenth birthday and life renewal with no solution in sight- she must kill to live. With her heart wrenching and no obvious alternative, she chooses to side with ancient Ruhk, Isaac, for answers. But will siding with the enemy ultimately be her death as an impending war brews between the blood-born Ruhk and those of abhorrent creation? Driven... [click here for more]

Sometime in the near future, Jack Pence finds himself in New York City . . .
. . . ALONE.
A sole survivor, apparently, of an unstoppable pandemic. He begins a journey west, hoping to find someone—anyone—who has also survived.
The search proves fruitless, and Jack stops in the tiny hamlet of Luna, New Mexico, slipping into despondency, and then despair, on the brink of defeat.
But... [click here for more]

Jack Bronson desperately needs a job. In fact, there isn't much he'd say no to if it meant a paycheck to keep a roof over his family's head.
When an opportunity arises to become the maintenance worker at an apartment complex, Jack jumps at the chance. During his interview, however, he can't help but wonder if there's something wrong. His new boss offers him the job in under five minutes, there's... [click here for more]

I am blessed--or cursed--with the ability to see the colour of peoples' souls, something I dare not reveal. Keeping my secret hidden has kept me safe. Until now. Now I am afraid that I can no longer hide from the evil in our society. Our laws are intended--or so I have always believed--to protect us from sinfulness and chaos. But my friend, Sarah, is pregnant and unmarried. Her child will be taken... [click here for more]

Originally published in separate anthologies, and out-of-print for many years, these three novellas by legendary Regency romance author Barbara Metzger are in one volume for the first time ever!
This collection includes the following stories:
"Autumn Glory" "The Management Requests" "A Match Made in Heaven - Or Hell"
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For Cassandra Thompson, a Marilyn Monroe look-alike who's recently been dumped by her second fiancé in two years, it could mean a well-needed change in life.
For Leif Halverson, a handsome man of Ojibwa extraction, and co-owner of the shop, it could mean disaster—like falling in love. Leif is far from happy about this city woman invading his territory so he challenges her to a wilderness... [click here for more]

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John wants to turn his life around, and that starts with a marriage proposal to his girlfriend. All that's standing between him and this act is a simple journey on the London Underground. Except that this journey will be anything but simple. Strange old ladies, apathetic passengers, a nervous Asian man and a deepening sense of unease are all obstacles... [click here for more]

Rane Ballantyne is instantly attracted as he watches his niece’s riding instructor, Brit Andover, flying over jump after jump as she pilots her big gelding around the Grand Prix level course. When they meet, he is gratified to see she feels the same spark of attraction he does. But while Rane wants to see where it leads, Brit is wary of any possible romance. She’s busy, too busy, trying... [click here for more]

Derek Michael's job as assistant district attorney hasn't been an easy one and ultimately cost him his marriage. His wife, Erin, vanished after running out of their house and no trace was found except for Derek’s submerged car.
Now, six years later, another woman of Derek's acquaintance has vanished and Derek is once again the prime suspect. Who is trying to set him up and can the police solve... [click here for more]

Shattered by hard economic times St. Louis lays atop an older city whose people died out centuries ago, save for Wanniukaga who wanders its urban decay to this day. Locked in a struggle to preserve his people’s traditions and adapt to accelerating change the healer must balance his many personalities. Two homeless teenagers befriend and help Wanniukaga through difficult times against other vampires... [click here for more]